Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and... a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer.T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough.Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev.Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here.Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman... of that sort.T.R. Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley?Mr. Beardsley: I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we Devlin?Devlin: Not at all. Not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sir, sitting in Washington playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, "We have heard sever...al of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

They all came, some wore sentimentsEmblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the lateness...Of the hour, and indeed the sun slanted its raysThrough branches of Norfolk Island pine as thoughPolitely clearing its throat....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The ho...rse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »